He's the talk of the ton—for all the wrong reasons! Society's most outrageous—and popular!—escort Nicholas D'Arcy is renowned for his utmost discretion. So when he suddenly finds himself named and shamed by a jealous husband, he reluctantly accepts a summons to the countryside…a fate worse than death! Annorah Price-Ellis isn't what Nick is used to—innocent, feisty and decidedly uncomfortable with the spontaneous heat between them! Suddenly, London's most audacious lover is out of his depth, and in danger of revealing the real man behind the polished facade…. Rakes Who Make Husbands Jealous Only London's best lovers need apply!
WITH UNCLE CHARLES AWAY, THE RAKES ARE OUT TO PLAY... Every rakehell in London seems to believe Regina Darlington is ripe for seduction without a protector at her side. They are mistaken. She is well equipped to defend her virtue using an ancient warrior art she learned from her uncle. Protecting her heart is another matter. When a down-and-out thief knocks himself unconscious robbing her uncle's town house, Regina takes pity on him and discovers she has no defenses against his charms, or a marriage of convenience that spoils her plans. THE PRICE FOR HIS REDEMPTION IS ONE MORE SIN... American scoundrel Xavier Vistoire gambled with the wrong man and lost his freedom. Now he has a chance to return home and atone for past mistakes, but first he must break into an earl's house and steal a map. After he surprises a goddess during her bath and falls down the stairs trying to escape her rabid poodle, he wakes to find he has a new jailer--one who quickly captures his heart. And he'll risk everything to protect his reluctant bride from an enemy willing to kill for what he wants. Start reading this charming and funny romantic tale today! Gentlemen of Intrigue: Book 1 Secrets to a Gentleman's Heart Book 2 A Secret in Her Eyes Book 3 A Lady's Secrets Book 4 Lord Margrave's Secret Desire
When a lady decides to become a spy, she must resist all temptation...especially love. Audrey Sheridan is London’s sweetheart, a position that allows her access to the ton and all its secrets. As the enigmatic writer, Lady Society, she is wild, reckless, and speaks her mind. She matchmakes wicked rogues with their perfect wives. But there’s one thing she’s failed to find since her debut. A husband for herself. And there’s only one man she’s ever wanted. There’s just one problem...he doesn’t want her. What’s a lady to do to mend her broken heart? Run off to become a spy... Jonathan St. Laurent is anything but a saint and certainly not husband material. He spent nearly his entire life as a servant to his half-brother the Duke of Essex. He’s trying to play the gentleman now, but it’s damned hard when he’s tempted by the ton’s darling spitfire Audrey. There’s something about her that makes him want to abandon the rules of polite society and show her just how wicked he can be...which is why it’s better to avoid the minx altogether. When Audrey’s plan to be a spy is discovered, Jonathan knows he must move heaven and earth to protect her while guarding his own secret...
London, 1839 Scandal-prone Cassandra Burroughs is determined to expose the outrageous secrets of Jocelyn Eisley, the man responsible for her family's disgrace. Her method? Seduction! She just never factored in being so outrageously attracted to this devastatingly wicked rake herself…. After only a brief encounter with Jocelyn, Cassandra is left wondering: Who is really being seduced? And when pleasure is this good, is this a game they both can win? Rakes Who Make Husbands Jealous Only London's best lovers need apply!
London, 1839 Former cavalry officer Captain Grahame Westmore is restless for change, but escorting a diplomat's spoiled daughter to Vienna isn't what he had in mind—though for once he hasn't been hired for his skills in pleasuring women! Independent, fiery and strong willed, Elowyn Bagshaw is not the simpering lady he expected. Used to getting her own way and giving the orders, Elowyn will not be controlled so easily. Grahame soon realizes that he's got a fight on his hands—and it's one they're both going to enjoy! Rakes Who Make Husbands Jealous Only London's best lovers need apply!
At three o'clock in the afternoon of the cold first Monday in March, 1601, a red flag rose, and a trumpet sounded thrice, from a little gabled turret protruding up out of a large wooden building in a field in that part of Southwark known as the Bankside and bordering on the Thames west of London Bridge. This rude edifice, or enclosure, was round (not like its successor, hexagonal) in shape; was in great part roofless; was built on a brick and stone foundation, and was encircled by a ditch for drainage. It was, in fact, the Globe Theatre; and the flag and trumpet meant that the "Lord Chamberlain's servants" were about to begin their performance, which, as the bill outside the door told in rough letters, was to be that of a new "Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmark," written by William Shakespeare. London folk knew this Master Shakespeare well as one of the aforesaid "servants," as the maker of most of the plays enacted now by those servants, and, which was deemed far more to his honor, as the poet of "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece." Many who read the playbill guessed rightly that the new "tragicall historie" was based in part upon another author's old play, which they had seen performed many times in the past. The audience, in all colours and qualities of doublet and hose, ruff and cloak, feathered hat and plain cap and scholar's coif, had awaited noisily the parting of the worsted curtains of the stage projecting from one side of the circular interior of the barnlike playhouse. Around the other sides were wooden galleries, and under these was a raised platform divided into boxes called "rooms," whose fronts were hung with painted cloth. The stage and the actors' tiring-room behind it were under a roof of thatch. The boxes had the galleries for cover. But the great central O-shaped space, known as the "yard," where self-esteeming citizens, and assertive scholars, and black-robed lawyers, and burly soldiers, and people of countless occupations, and people of no occupation at all, stood and crowded and surged and talked and chaffed, and bought fruit and wine and beer from the clamorous venders, had no ceiling but the sky. It had no floor but the bare ground, and no seats whatever.
One last night of passion can purge the guy you’ve loved for the past twelve years from your mind and heart…right? Izzy Delany, at thirteen, lost her parents in a tragic accident in Australia. New York became her new home with her aunt, and that is where she met her best friend, Mel Astor. The day Izzy met Mel’s eldest brother, Tristian, her teenage heart and mind fell in love. At twenty-five, Izzy is successful with three companies. The Astor family has no idea that their biggest competitor is little Izzy. Tristian Astor is a master at being in charge of everything in his life, and his sister’s best friend is not part of the equation. Pity his heart does not agree to keep the woman of his dreams at arm’s length. When Izzy discovers her life is in danger, can she survive long enough to inform Tristian that he is the father of her baby and that she loves him? Or will she lose everything, including her life, in this friends-to-lovers, best-friend-brother romance? In this plot-twisting, romancing, action-packed, who-can-you-trust, page-turning book. The other standalone books from the Second Chance at Love series. Insta Bride. The Bodyguard's Convenient Marriage. Ghost of a Chance in Love. Secret Heiress.
